As soon as Akwasi Asante unleashed an unstoppable right footed shot past Jonathan Maddison to seal a 3-1 success for Chester FC over Darlington on Saturday the conversation among many quickly turned to how soon the Blues could make the Dutchman's loan move permanent.

Signed on Friday afternoon on a 28-day loan from Evo-Stik Premier League side Tamworth, where he was having to settle for a place on the bench, Asante started for the Blues on Saturday and put in a spectacular shift to become the first Chester player since the legendary Stuart Rimmer in 1985 to score a hat-trick on his debut.

It was, too, a perfect hat-trick that saw him net with his head, his left foot and his right foot. Aided by a superb display from his teammates, who played for 60 minutes with 10 men after Dan Mooneyw was sent off for a second bookable offence, Asante dazzled with a sublime strikers' display that will no doubt leave Blues bosses Anthony Johnson and Bernard Morley looking to make the loan move a more permanent affair as soon as they can.

And for Asante, who had a prolific spell with Solihull Moors to help them to the National League North title back in 2016 that eventually earned him a move to League Two side Grimsby Town, it was a debut that simply couldn't have gone any better.

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"Bloody hell, if I do that every week then I won't be here for very long will I?!", joked the Dutchman.

"It's a great feeling getting the perfect hat-trick on your debut but I'm just happy we got the three points.

"We hadn't won for four or five games and it was nice to climb up the league again.

"I trained Thursday night and had did a bit of research to see who I was up against and who were my teammates but they are a great bunch of lads. The way we play suits the way I play.

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"It's just nice to score a few goals, that's what I do and that's what I've been brought here to do. I haven't been playing much football lately but I look after myself off the pitch to make sure I'm ready for opportunities like today."

Johnson and Morley already had a permanent swoop for Asante at the back of their minds should he impress during his loan spell.

And while it is just one game, his audition could hardly have gone any better. And having already received a rapturous applause in the Blues Bar, first impressions have been very good for the 26-year-old.

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"I've won this league two or three years ago under Marcus Bignot and scored 20 goals that season. I have played at this level before, got promoted and then got a move to Grimsby where I was doing well but unfortunately Marcus got sacked and things didn't go my way and I needed to leave to get football and that's why I went to Tamworth.

"We got relegated and all of a sudden you are three leagues below where you think you should be. I have got this loan move to a better league, a better standard and it is up to me to show what I can do."

Chester are back in action on Saturday when they travel to former Football League foes Stockport County (3pm kick off).